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...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
About 9 p. m. the CH-113 settled upon the glacier above the village of Ober Gurgl in the Austrian Tyrol. There the scientists rested until morning beside their deflated balloon, calmly working on their notes, securing precious instruments. A searching party met them toward midday, led them to safety and the world's news spotlight...
Professor Piccard blinked bewilderedly behind his spectacles at all the excitement. True, they had remained aloft longer than intended, but that was only because the gas valve had failed to work, and they were forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result...
...impossible to learn either the point of departure of the destination of the super-balloon last night, since the flight was made without previous publicity. This is the first trip of the Los Angeles to these parts for some time, for it was not present during the air manouevres over Boston...
...event of another war. But last week the War Department regretfully announced that it had lost track of almost half of its aces, sought through the public prints the whereabouts of 28 of them. Among the "missing" were famed Jerry Vasconcelles, companion of the late Hero Frank ("Balloon Buster") Luke, and Jaques M. Swaab, credited with ten enemy planes...